Panicky nutroots cry racism over another Corker ad

posted at 6:50 pm on October 25, 2006 by Allahpundit

Not the one with the faux playmate. That’s been pulled now at Corker’s request, ostensibly due to “tackiness” but actually because it’s served its purpose and isn’t worth any more political heat. But with Corker ahead and Ford acting uncharacteristically moronic of late, the nutroots can’t afford to let the Republican racism meme get away that easily.

Which brings us to this. Hosted, fittingly enough, on the server of Josh “I question the timing” Marshall.

This exchange from the comments almost makes it worth it:

On October 25, 2006 – 3:33pm CODemocrat said:

I dunno. I don’t think those are actually tom-toms, and it’s certainly not identifiably African. Those are just standard base drum booms you hear in the background on every negative ad. It’s more Wagnerian than racist. Maybe I’m missing something.

Update: Forgot to mention — you should listen to the ad twice. The first time, focus on the drums. The second time, focus on the narration. They’re pointing to the music to argue that Corker’s calling Ford a savage when the whole point of the clip is to show how elitist and privileged Ford’s life has been compared to BC’s.

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ummm…sooo Elton John…A WHITE MAN is racist for including African style drums on the soundtrack of the Lion King?
George Harrison, the noted racist, was known to include sitar and tablas in much of his music. How did he get away with it?
And the voice of the singer on the ad, can anyone tell if she is white or not? Is she singing “ooohs” and “aaahs” and could that be an allusion to the stereotype of disadvantaged minorities having limited vocabularies?

I’m still waiting for somebody somewhere to explain to me exactly how the Playboy bunny bit was racist. Anybody know? I’m seriously clueless. I saw Chrissy Matthews hyperventilating over it today … and I don’t get it.

Um – the point was to criticize Ford for sermonizing from a church pew while simultaneously hanging out with hot babes. (Which, by the way, is the only thing I *support* about the guy!)

So showing this is … racist? Why? Because the woman was white? Well … aren’t 95% of the bunnies white?

Isn’t the truth that LIBERALS are racist if they think any image of a white woman with a black man equates to racism? My wife makes me watch Grey’s Anatomy – it’s got a couple that’s an Asian woman and a Black guy. Is it racist?

Somebody help me out. Usually I can at least partially understand even the most twisted lefty logic. On this one, I don’t remotely get the point.

Ahhhh … the smell of nutroot desperation. Absolutely nothing Corker has done, said or shown is “racist”. It’s just all the nutroots have left, hammer Corker with every old, dried up accusation they can muster and hope one sticks.

The interracial couple is racist, you see, because the Dixiecrats tried to keep it from happening for so long…

uh, um, lemme start again:

The interracial couple is racist, you see, because any real Republican is so controlled by the religious, pale-faced evangelicals that they’re inherently repulsed by the thought of a minority anywhere near their homes let alone a fellow white person. And because you don’t recognize that then pick one:
a. you’re a closeted or subconscious racist
b. you’re just another in the herd of sheeple directed by the Rethugs into thinking race shouldn’t matter… something. Because you should care about race!

I have to ask: does Ford even qualify as black? Is this like the Indian thing where he still gets the tribal benefits with as low as 1% blood? I don’t care about his skin color at all until Democrats whine and seethe about imagined racism. I’ve seen real racism. It’s seared (SEARED!!!) into my memory.

And people say the Dems don’t have any ideas! I think they’ve shown themselves to be full of a panoply of paranoid fantasies. Their favorite has to be the hidden
racist intent in everything conservatives say or do. What a way to live.

Does the racism charge actually work anymore? As of lately(think Alito) I only remember the libs trotting out this charge whenever they are desperate. I also don’t think Repubs should be as concerned about this charge today as they have been in the past. I mean, if these fools hear drums and think racism, I can’t imagine how that reflects positively on the fools.

Oh hey, this add is far worse than rascist. The audible harp chords surely imply that Corker is, in fact, a devine being while the drum beats sound a lot like what Hell must be like where, as we all know, Ford is Satan’s right-hand man. /sarc

Kid from Brooklyn … you nailed it. That’s exactly what I posted on a local lefty blog just now …

Ho. Lee. Crap. Jungle drums? Tell me this is a parody of righteous indignation … please. A blonde woman winking at a black man is racist? Oh gag. Please, spare me. Would it be better if she was black too? Or would that play into even more racism by presuming that black women are bimbos. (Can a black be a bimbo? Or is that for white blondes only?) All these cries of racism over every little thing is seriously smacking of projection. Seriously, people. Get a grip.

Sure the TV ad was stupid and immature. It was also funny as hell. I’m thinking Ford fans are more upset that they didn’t think of this first, more than anything. But he still is getting a pass for his childish antics at the press conference, right?

I see how it is …

Jungle drums??? Give me a break!

Is it Nov 8 YET??? Please??? Is it this insane in any other state besides Tennessee? Let me outta here!

I’m not that good at spotting racism like some of my more sensitive progressive countrymen are. Which is why I was scratching my head and going ‘huh?’ when the left starting saying those drums in the Corker campaign ad were so racist. Heck, I could barely hear them. But drums and black equals some sort of racial taboo. Go figure.

But I was wondering… If instead of using the racist drums on his ad, what if Corker used the same Halloween / Michael Meyers theme song and played it whenever Ford was mentioned? Would that be racist? Cuz I’m doing my best to figure this stuff out.

I already know who I’m voting for in November based on what I know about who’s running in my area. It’ll be all Republican this time around, not because they’re the “limited government” types I’d prefer in a perfect world, but because they don’t scream racism! at the sound of a kick-drum.

i’m reminded of the south park bit where they passed a law that restricted game hunting to self-defense. hunting went on unabated, but there had to be some pro forma declaration before firing. so the hunters would go marching though the woods all cocked and geared-up and when they saw a deer they’d yell, “he’s comin’ right for us!” before firing, and then they’d collect their game.

meanwhile over at DKos (aka adult daycare for radical liberals) they are saying that ALL republicans are closet racist… and if you don’t think this add or the TV spot is racist… then you are a racist. God, I hate Kos…

Some watch “King Kong” and see a racist movie framing colonialist attitudes and fears about uncivilized blacks

Guess which group is the real racist?

Darleen on October 25, 2006 at 9:16 PM

Ironically, on college campuses, they ask questions just like that, but strangely enough, their answer key is a little bit different from what your or my answer key would be.

No kidding, I went to one of those sort of cultural awareness things. It was about racism in the media and why asians were always being stereotyped.

It was all crazyness to me, but real crazy didn’t start until they showed a club flier for an asian night club. And on the flier was some girl in a catholic school girl outfit. Keep in mind, this club was run by asians, for asians. (nothing wrong with the club, but that was just their theme and clientel)

Yeah, that’s right, you guessed it. Whitey was responsible for that offensive image too. Cuz when the American’s occupied Japan after WWII, they were all a bunch of paedophilles who liked that sort of stuff. So some how that got transfered over to the U.S. decades later.
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I was kinda unimpressed with that.

I hear that ad here in TN every day and being Black I never once even noticed the drums or was offended. I guess I’m one of those dumb voters that actually listens to words :-) .

Now that I know about the drums I still can’t say it’s somehow offensive. They don’t really sound like some effort to paint Ford as some kind of “tribal” minded man. Just a contrast in sounds, to point out Ford’s so much an outsider to TN, that he gets most of his campaign funds from outside of this state. It’s a musical contrast and nothing more.

I also agree that they might not even be African drums, but I’m an American, so I can’t really say I do any African drumming to know for certain. The drums don’t make me think of anything African.

It’s the Liberals that adore the term “African” American, but cry that someone they attribute the term to might have been associated with something African.

The anybody can contribute encyclopedia says that tom-toms are of native American or Asian origins. Some other African drum is sometimes called a tom-tom, but Harrison probably is right about them being of American Indian origins. I was born here, I’m a native American :-) .

The cries over Ford are just so lame. A clear sign they are desperate.

Somebody help me out. Usually I can at least partially understand even the most twisted lefty logic. On this one, I don’t remotely get the point.

Or is that the whole point – that it’s all faux outrage?

The commentary of the left is perplexing. I too can’t seem to find the inference. Maybe it’s cuz I don’t have their super-secret-secret-agent racism decoder ring. I should have sent those box-tops of Huff-n-Puff and Flakey-flakes cereal.

I’m a Southeast Tennesseean and an active Republican in the county (Rhea – ray not raheeuh) on the north border of Corker’s hometown. I have personally met and shook hands with Bob more times than I can count in the last few years. Bob’s not a racist, and the flap over both these ads has been very WELCOME to those of us on the correct side of the Tennessee aisle. You see, it simply indicates that Ford realizes he’s beat – it’s desperation folks. wooohooo!

But, back to bringin’ the heat. I have also personally met Mr. Lockhart, the head man at WGOW, whom the linked article quotes as saying “They’re freakin’ jungle drums…yeah it’s racist.” Well, guess what? Mr. Lockhart’s not gonna be appreciating the heat I’m about to bring down on his little world. I truly hope they made up the quote and attrib’d it to him, because a man in his position has got no business going on the record with a statement like that. And in Corker’s hometown to boot! Here locky locky locky – time to take your medicine!

Oh and by the way – I’m an 8th grade math teacher by trade, so I’m in class with about 20 teenagers right now. After reading all the posts here, I have to admit, they’re all staring incredulously at me trying to figure out why I’ve been rolling under my desk laughing for the past 10 minutes.

Conservative = racist. That’s a fact. You all need to look deep inside yourselves and realize the truth – you may not be aware of it, but you are racist. I realize some of us are minorities here, and that is worse – that makes us “sellouts”, and that means that those of us that are conservative and a minority deserve to be insulted (racial slurs are allowed).